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Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of TotalEnergies, attended last year's climate talks as part of a German NGO delegation. And former BP CEO Bernard Looney did so as part of the Mauritanian delegation (Photo: Unsplash)

'7,200 fossil-fuel lobby passes' at 20 years of UN climate summits

Fossil-fuel lobbyists have attended UN climate talks at least 7,200 times over the past two decades to water down efforts to tackle climate change, according to a new analysis by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition, a global network of more than 450 organisations.

The analysis, published on Tuesday (20 November), comes ahead of the

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Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.

Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of TotalEnergies, attended last year's climate talks as part of a German NGO delegation. And former BP CEO Bernard Looney did so as part of the Mauritanian delegation (Photo: Unsplash)

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Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.

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